{"id":11198,"date":"2013-10-08T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-08T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T16:21:03","slug":"sebelius_called_out_as_liar_on_daily_show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/08\/sebelius_called_out_as_liar_on_daily_show\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebelius Called Out as Liar on Daily Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, as many of you know, The Daily Show, hosted by Jon Stewart — and I must be honest. I\u2019ve only seen this show on video clips. I really haven\u2019t watched it. It doesn\u2019t mean anything; I just haven\u2019t. Snerdley\u2019s looking at me like he can\u2019t believe it. It\u2019s not a purposeful thing. I don\u2019t even know where the Comedy Central channel is on DirecTV — full disclosure here. But it has been established that for the college-age crowd and for Millennials and, we learn, I forget the source of this, there was a news story yesterday<\/a>, journalism students, it turns out, are getting their news from CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS — not Fox — and The Daily Show. Journalism students are getting their news from The Daily Show. <\/p>\n

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Now, whether we like it or not, we have to accept certain realities here in Realville, and that is for certain young people The Daily Show is not a comedy show. Well, it is, but it\u2019s news, along with Twitter, it is a primary source of news. And we learned yesterday it\u2019s a primary source of news for journalism students. Fox News is not. I\u2019ll find that piece. I had it in yesterday\u2019s Stack, I think. I didn\u2019t get to it \u2019cause yesterday I was so distracted. It\u2019s amazing, folks, that yesterday\u2019s show even happened, but I\u2019m good today. I\u2019m hunky dory, I\u2019m fine, everything\u2019s cool, we\u2019re in there, we\u2019re all in, a hundred percent and so forth \u2019cause it\u2019s working now. At least on one of them. It\u2019s working so progress is taking place. <\/p>\n

Anyway, Kathleen Sebelius, who is the secretary of Health and Human Services, was on The Daily Show last night, and she lied, and Stewart called her out on it. Now, as much as you might be off put by a comedy show being taken seriously, the fact of the matter is when low-information audiences, and I don\u2019t mean that insultingly, I\u2019m just trying to be realistic here. The Daily Show is an attraction for the low-information crowd<\/a>. They think they\u2019re being fully informed, and that\u2019s fine. It is what it is. <\/p>\n

The point is this. When a low-information audience predisposed to loving Obama, trusting Obama, a low-information audience that has bought the Limbaugh Theorem<\/a> hook, line, and sinker, when they end up laughing at an Obama bureaucrat\u2019s non-answers and lies, it is a big deal. You may not like that it\u2019s a big deal. You may resent that it\u2019s a big deal, but it\u2019s, nevertheless, a big deal. <\/p>\n

In addition, we have sound bites coming up here from other outposts in the media. For example, on CNN The Forehead was on with Erin Burnett, and she said, “Didn\u2019t you guys kind of oversell the shutdown? I mean, it isn\u2019t nearly as bad as you guys have been making it out to be.” Sam Zell, the well-known financier and real estate tycoon in Chicago was on CNBC today, and he said that the market is using the shutdown as an excuse to correct itself. It is kind of falling a little bit. He said the Tea Party is great, it\u2019s natural, and, in fact, it is a reaction to an imperial White House. <\/p>\n

And then we have the arbiters of Washington liberal conventional wisdom — not David Gergen; he\u2019s in there, too. But two of the most absolutely flawless examples of elitist liberal mind-sets, Tina Brown and Frank Rich, on Anderson Cooper last night fretting that the Democrats are losing this. Exactly as I, El Rushbo, have suggested to you, that the Democrats are losing this. There is a general unease that has permeated the left. It\u2019s interesting, if you listen to the wrong Republicans, these people are so beat down, even some Republican media — not gonna mention any names, doesn\u2019t serve any purpose. I was watching Fox today. Some conservative media analysts, they\u2019re just convinced the Republicans are having their clocks cleaned and having their pants handed to \u2019em because they\u2019re the prisoners of the inside the Beltway narrative every day and they don\u2019t see this. <\/line><\/p>\n

In addition to that, all kinds of people are coming out now and not just giving examples of the Obamacare website not working, but telling us why it can\u2019t because the best people are not in government. They\u2019re at Google or they are at Apple, or they\u2019re elsewhere. The government is totally incapable and incompetent and some of them are suggesting we\u2019re way beyond glitch here. This is not glitch. This is an utter disaster. So we\u2019ve got quite a lot here to impart and share. <\/p>\n

We also have found out, Reason.com today has a story, remember that Obama poster boy Chad Henderson and his dad, said to be the first successful Obamacare patients that signed up and went to HealthCare.gov, and they were touted as the first successful sign-ups. This kid Chad, he was perfect. He\u2019s 30 years old, exactly the kind of guy. It turns out they didn\u2019t really buy insurance. The whole thing was a lie. The whole thing was a fraud. <\/p>\n

Another story. There are not 20 Republicans willing and ready to abandon the Republicans in the House as Harry Reid and others have been saying. So we really are loaded today. <\/p>\n

I want to go back to The Daily Show and the audio sound bites here of Kathleen Sebelius, who came off as ignorant, misleading, and totally incompetent. Stewart did his best. I mean, she\u2019s friendly. She\u2019s from the regime. He\u2019s on their side, but it got to the point that even for his own credibility he was not able to let this go. So let\u2019s start with The Daily Show, last night, Jon Stewart interviewing Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services. This is the woman with all the power in Obamacare. You look at the law, and of course what we\u2019re dealing with now is not the law that was signed. Obama has added to it, and this is another thing. More and more people are starting to ask — and that\u2019s what this is about — “Now, wait a minute, you\u2019re giving businesses waivers and you\u2019re allowing them to year to wait on their mandate. Why not us? Why not the little guy?” <\/p>\n

A lot of this stuff, folks, is starting to snowball, and I don\u2019t want to make too big a deal of it, but it is happening, and I want you to see how and see what you think about it. So here Stewart says in our first sound bite, “Why is it that individuals couldn\u2019t say they didn\u2019t want to do it just for a year like business?” What he\u2019s saying is, “Look, you guys granted businesses a year\u2019s grace on the employer mandate. Why can\u2019t individuals say, ‘You know what? We\u2019d like a year\u2019s grace from having to buy this piece of rot. Why can\u2019t we?'” And here\u2019s her answer.<\/p>\n

SEBELIUS: Well, they can. They pay a fine. They pay a fine at the end of the year, but they don\u2019t have to — I mean, they can say, “I don\u2019t want to do it.” The theory is they can\u2019t pick and choose if they\u2019re gonna get hit by a bus or diagnosed with an illness, and for a lot of young folks, they\u2019re, you know, one fall on the basketball court, one auto accident away from a lifetime of hospital bills they can\u2019t pay.<\/p>\n

STEWART: Still not sure why individuals can\u2019t delay.<\/p>\n